Michael Gianco

Michael "Spider" Gianco (1954-1970) was a Lucchese crime family associate who worked as a bartender at Robert's Lounge in New York City. He was murdered by the mobster Tommy DeVito in 1970.

Biography
Michael Gianco was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City in 1954 to a family of Italian immigrants from Olbia, Sardinia. In his adolescence, he became a runaway youth, and several of his cousins became low-level associates of the Bonanno crime family. During the 1960s, Jimmy Conway introduced him to Paul Cicero's crew of the Lucchese crime family, and he became a drinker at 16, a car thief, skilled burglar; his burglary skills and his long limbs led to him being nicknamed "Spider". In 1970, while serving drinks to some mobsters at Robert's Lounge, Gianco forgot to give Tommy DeVito his Crown Royal, angering him. DeVito berated him, shooting him in the foot while pretending to be Humphrey Bogart. On another night, DeVito and some mob friends played poker, and a bandaged Gianco served them drinks. When DeVito told Gianco to dance his way back to the table, Gianco told him to fuck himself. An offended DeVito shot Gianco several times in the chest, killing him, and he buried him in the unfinished section of the basement.